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Poliomyelitis isolation hospital, Kakonko, Tanganyika [electronic resource].

Topics: Poliomyelitis, History of Medicine, Poliomyelitis epidemiology., Tropical Medicine., Child., Poliomyelitis diagnosis.

Contributor: [S.l.] : Non-broadcast recording, 1991.

This is a unique record of life and work in the temporary 100-bed isolation hospital established at Kakonko in the Kibondo District of Tanganyika by Drs. J.S. Oakey and I. Lanfer of the Tanganyika Medical Service during a severe outbreak of poliomyelitis in 1956-57. Shows diagnostic testing of muscle activity and reflexes in children, and the pitiful physical condition of severely affected children in the final stages of the disease.

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